{"id":74631,"date":"2023-02-24T19:41:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T17:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=74631"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:15:45","slug":"messari-ceo-announces-15-staff-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/messari-ceo-announces-15-staff-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Messari CEO announces 15% staff cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messari laid off 15% of its staff. The announcement was made by Ryan Selkis, founder and chief executive of the analytics company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/ Yesterday we made the difficult decision to restructure several of Messari\u2019s internal teams, leading to a 15% staff reduction.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re grateful for the contributions of the teammates we have parted ways with, and will provide resources and connections to help them transition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Selkis ? (@twobitidiot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twobitidiot\/status\/1628739313214029824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday we made the difficult decision to restructure several internal teams, which led to a 15% staff reduction. We are grateful for the contributions of the colleagues we parted ways with, and will provide resources and connections to help them find new work,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Selkis said that Messari still has some open vacancies for which they plan to hire. He also stated that this move would provide the company with a stronger foundation for the long term.<\/p>\n<p>By March, Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/microsoft-to-lay-off-10000-employees\">will lay off around 10 000 people<\/a>. The payments company PayPal <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/paypal-to-lay-off-about-2000-employees-roughly-7-of-the-workforce\">will lay off 2,000 employees<\/a> or about 7% of its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, layoffs have been reported at <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-to-lay-off-20-of-staff-in-third-round-of-layoffs\">Coinbase<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/consensys-reportedly-plans-to-lay-off-more-than-100-employees\">ConsenSys<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/digital-currency-group-closes-hq-digital-unit\">Genesis Trading<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/blockchain-com-to-cut-a-quarter-of-its-staff\">Blockchain.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/gemini-lays-off-10-of-staff-amid-genesis-troubles\">Gemini<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/dcg-backed-luno-to-cut-35-of-staff\">Luno<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/media-reports-layoffs-at-matrixport-owned-by-ji-han-wu\">Matrixport<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-to-lay-off-nearly-5-of-staff-amid-crypto-winter\">Chainalysis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-exchange-bittrex-to-cut-about-30-of-its-staff\">Bittrex<\/a> and other crypto companies.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, in September 2022 Messari <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/messari-closes-35-million-series-b-led-by-brevan-howard-digital-and-other-investors\">raised $35 million<\/a> in a Series B funding round. It was led by Brevan Howard Digital, the unit of billionaire Alan Howard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messari laid off 15% of its staff. The founder and CEO Ryan Selkis announced it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1276,1468],"class_list":["post-74631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-layoffs","tag-messari"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74633,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74631\/revisions\/74633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}